Officer Craig Fox was on patrol when he heard a call about the mailbox smashings. He began following a car and saw two baseball bats tossed out the window before it was stopped, police said.

Bazzano, Lombardo and Cloyd were held on $500 bond and are scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Norwich on June 20, police said.

Anyone who has had a mailbox smashed in the Buckley Hill area in the past few days -- and has not reported it to police -- is asked to contact Fox at 537-7270 or 537-7500.

GLASTONBURY

* An East Hartford woman accused of screaming lewd insults at East Hartford town hall and racial epithets there and at a post office in East Hartford was turned over to the Glastonbury police Thursday, who had a warrant for her arrest, police said.

Police say about 9 a.m., Susan Hyland, 44, whose last known address was 13 Pinecrest Drive, East Hartford, became upset she was not getting a rent rebate. She went ``out of control'' in town hall's community renewal team office, a worker told police.

Witnesses said she walked into the mayor's office and out into a common hallway, yelling accusations of a sexual nature about a secretary there. She also said God would wipe out town hall, and expressed disdain for Italians, police said.

``She was in here screaming and creating quite a ruckus,'' Mayor Timothy D. Larson later said. Larson, who was at a Boy Scout breakfast at the time of the disturbance, said, ``She was swearing and threatening to kill 40,000 Italians. She was screaming that former Mayor [Robert] DeCrescenzo was corrupt.''

She was escorted out of the building.

About 10 a.m., police received a call from the post office at 888 Silver Lane, East Hartford. An employee said Hyland entered the post office and yelled a racial insult at her, saying God told her the worker stole her paycheck, police said.

Police found out there was a warrant for Hyland's arrest in Glastonbury on a charge of failure to appear in court, and an officer took her to the Glastonbury police department.

Police there said they originally charged her with trespassing and disorderly conduct after officers found her asleep in a stranger's vehicle in March. She also was accused of yelling and screaming at police, Glastonbury police said.